In these difficult times, it’s well known that enterprises are looking to accelerate their business operations and improve their IT agility while at the same time keeping costs at bay. It’s a juggling act that even the savviest CIOs find challenging. But with this challenge comes opportunity.
This ongoing demand has resulted in the outsourcing of computing and networking resources to Cloud and Managed IT Providers alike, who have gained new respect in the IT services value chain thanks to operational focus and economies of scale, achieved by sharing their resources and managing several environments.
But while outsourcing is garnering the headlines, “cloudsourcing” is also drawing attention.
While outsourcing may be seen by some as a mere shift of resource ownership, cloudsourcing is actually a different animal altogether. In the enterprise-controlled data center, aspects such as security, operations and functionality are managed according to enterprise methodology. But in a managed-services model, service providers have professional, industrywide policies for managing data centers that drive better control, interaction and response time.
To avoid abuse of networking and computing resources, cloud and managed IT providers are implementing various methods to manage user traffic, including networking options offered by Allot Communications (News - Alert), a leading global provider of intelligent broadband solutions that put mobile, fixed and enterprise networks at the center of the digital workstyle. Allot’s DPI-based solutions identify and leverage the business intelligence in data networks, empowering operators to shape digital workstyle experiences and to capitalize on the network traffic they generate.
For the enterprise, an increase in customers, bandwidth and a shared infrastructure environment requires a more efficient operational model, where traffic management is essential for flexibility in monitoring and guaranteeing user experience. By implementing traffic management solutions such as those offered by Allot, cloud service providers are now able to control in- and out-bound traffic for each customer – per application – in order to deliver visibility and quality of service.
This is why cloud and managed IT providers are adopting centralized traffic management in place of inefficient operations where traffic is collected and configured by several types of devices. The centralized approach has created a corporate-level, de-facto standard for simplifying complex traffic management environments.
If your company could benefit from better management and resource allocation, reach out to Allot for solutions that work.
Edited by Blaise McNamee